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The success of US crime documentary Making a Murderer could lead to new questions being raised regarding the most investigated unsolved murder in British history.

Since its release on Netflix in December the compelling drama has seen millions of viewers question the facts behind the case of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, who were jailed in 2007 for the murder of Teresa Halbach in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

Inspired by the programme’s success, the brother of a murdered Welsh private detective is now hoping his family’s 30-year fight for justice can raise similar awareness as they continue to search for answers.

Alastair Morgan, 67, has decided to make a documentary about his brother Daniel’s death with journalist Peter Jukes.

Daniel's brother Alastair Morgan. PICTURE: www.byline.com

Encouraged by Making a Murderer

Mr Jukes said his decision to get involved was “absolutely”encouraged by Making a Murderer as well as the success of real-crime US podcast Serial, which revisited the case of Adnan Syed, convicted for the 1999 murder of his high-school classmate and former girlfriend, eighteen-year-old Hae Min Lee.

The podcast has been cited as an influence on Making a Murderer has been downloaded more than 68 million times.

“I wanted to shout out loud about it because I thought it’s so important that stuff like this is brought under the public spotlight.”

Mr Morgan says he fears the case has now been so “mangled by corruption” that it would be “extremely difficult” to mount a successful prosecution.

But he maintains the people he believes are responsible for his brother’s murder are “walking around the streets today”.

Alastair Morgan and his mother Isobel Hulsmann at Scotland Yard

Panel's appeal 28 years on

Last March a panel investigating the unsolved murder issued an appeal for information 28 years after the crime was committed.

Home Secretary Theresa May MP established the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel (DMIP) to carry out a full and effective review of corruption as it affected the handling of the case and of the treatment of Daniel Morgan’s family by the police and other parts of the criminal justice system.

At the same time, Alastair Morgan wrote to global media tycoon Rupert Murdoch urging him to help the independent inquiry.

The tycoon’s defunct News of the World newspaper has been linked to the case ever since it emerged the tabloid had been spying on the Met’s detective Dave Cook, who was leading an inquiry into Daniel’s murder.

In 2012, evidence heard during the Leveson Inquiry into press standards revealed that Daniel’s detective firm Southern Investigations, whose members included suspects in his killing, had ‘’close links’’ to senior News of the World news editor Alex Marunchak.

Home Secretary Theresa May (Photo: Peter Byrne/PA Wire)

Apology to family

Following the collapse of the murder trial in 2011 the Met apologised to Daniel’s family and the former Metropolitan Police Authority made a payment of £125,000 to help with their legal costs. However it did not admit responsibility.

Mr Jukes, who in 2014 was named by media industry trade magazine Press Gazette as the best journalist on Twitter and social media, said he wanted to tell the “human story” of the impact on the Morgan family.

The pair have already made two half-hour podcasts telling Daniel’s story and are currently in advanced discussions with financial backers behind the Serial podcasts to create ten episodes in total, which would then be made available on iTunes.

Meanwhile discussions regarding the possibility of making a documentary in a “visual” medium are also said to be planned.